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frGetting Lost with Gallowayhttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/13058
<div class="field field-name-field-thumbnail field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/blog_post/thumbnail/mattforrom_sm.jpg?itok=vBp6pHBg" width="654" height="368" alt="Portrait of Matt Galloway, CBC Metro Morning Host and Toronto resident. " title="Matt Galloway is the host of Metro Morning on CBC Radio One, 99.1 FM, the top-rated morning radio program in Toronto. Galloway is a keen cyclist, burgeoning runner, voracious reader, proud Torontonian, and messy cook. He lives in the west end of Toronto with his wife and their two daughters." /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>
We sat down with CBC&rsquo;s Matt Galloway to find out exactly what keeps bringing him back to the ROM</h2>
<p><strong>Q:</strong> Do you visit the museum often?</p>
<p><strong>A:</strong> Yes, I have a couple of young kids. We come on a fairly regular basis. Sometimes if there&rsquo;s a special event, but also sometimes we come just to wander around. It&rsquo;s a great place to explore&mdash;one of the places we go to just spend time in the city. That&rsquo;s a big thing for our family, to be out and about in Toronto as much as we can.</p>
<p><img alt="A school group visits the Dinosaur gallery and the ROM's t-rex. A favorite stop for families visiting Toronto." src="/sites/default/files/imce/rom2012_12856_10.jpg" style="width: 650px; height: 366px;" /></p>
<p><strong>Q:</strong> Do you visit other museums when you travel? Do you haveany favourites?</p>
<p><strong>A:</strong> We go to a lot of different museums. I&rsquo;m fascinated with cities, so in Barcelona we&rsquo;ve been to The Museum of the City, that&rsquo;s one of the great ones for us. Especially the subterranean catacombs...It tells you a lot about the history of the town that you&rsquo;re in. I think that&rsquo;s amazing.</p>
<p>One of the most interesting museums we&rsquo;ve ever been to was in Havana. There&rsquo;s a museum of music and musical instruments and it&rsquo;s incredible. It&rsquo;s filled with weird curiosities that you would not otherwise have a chance to wrap your head around.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Especially with young kids, they&rsquo;re curious and interested in things and a museum is one place we can all go together. You leave feeing like you&rsquo;ve learned a little bit about the culture of the place you&rsquo;re in.</p>
<p><strong>Q: </strong>Speaking of cities and cultural connections, perhaps the upcoming Mexican textiles exhibition, <em>&iexcl;Viva M&eacute;xico! </em>is a good example of this.</p>
<p><strong>A: </strong>One of the things the ROM does is connect people with the city. Hopefully the Mexican community in Toronto will feel that same way after seeing <em>&iexcl;Viva M&eacute;xico!</em>. If you can do things like that to make more people feel like it&rsquo;s their place, you&rsquo;re going to have more people feel invested in it. Things like that can give people an entry point into a really important institution in the city.</p>
<p><strong>Q: </strong>That&rsquo;s a great sense of exploration.</p>
<p><strong>A:</strong> Yes, and of unintentionality. The idea of being spontaneous and not having everything planned out in front of you. That to me is the gem of a place like the ROM.</p>
<p><strong>Q: </strong>Are there any places at the ROM that are favourites for your children?</p>
<p><strong>A: </strong>Oh yes, the bat cave. For a long time our kids were afraid to go in the bat cave. So we would go around the bat cave, or watch people come out of the bat cave. Or we&rsquo;d get half way into the bat cave and have to leave. But they&rsquo;re now at an age where they will go through the whole thing themselves, again and again and again! That&rsquo;s now. But for a long time it was, &ldquo;let&rsquo;s go to the bat cave, let&rsquo;s not go to the bat cave.&rdquo;</p>
<p><img alt="Children visiting the Bat Cave at the Royal Ontario Museum. " src="/sites/default/files/imce/rom2012_12913_7.jpg" style="width: 650px; height: 434px;" /></p>
<p><strong>Q:</strong> Do you have a favourite object at the ROM?</p>
<p><strong>A:</strong> I remember the first time I saw the birds of paradise in the Crystal. I was on a tour for work. Then we went back later as a family and that was one of the things I was most keen to show them. I was fascinated by the way the birds sweep up the stairs. It&rsquo;s meant to be something that you see on your way past, but I love that people stop and look at them.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Q:</strong> What advice would you give to someone who has never visited the ROM before?</p>
<p><strong>A:</strong> In many ways you can see the ROM from the outside and then from the inside. If you stand at the corner of Bloor St. and Avenue Rd., in the right light, you can look in and see the life inside the building. You can see the dinosaurs, but also people moving around. There&rsquo;s a real sense of a buzz that&rsquo;s happening there. And then you go in and there&rsquo;s a sense of animation that you wouldn&rsquo;t expect, a real sense that there&rsquo;s all this different life that&rsquo;s there.</p>
<p><img alt="Inside the ROM from streetview." src="/sites/default/files/imce/rom2008_9884_5.jpg" style="width: 650px; height: 366px;" /></p>
<p>When we go, we go through the familiar places, bat cave, the dino gallery. And we like the biodiversity area where we can spend hours opening drawers and looking at eggs and things like that. And of course the gems. Then you end up upstairs wandering through little back spots that you wouldn&rsquo;t otherwise plan to go to. So maybe my advice to someone would be to go and get lost. Turn left instead of right. When I go I sometimes plan to get lost.</p>
<p><img alt="Egg Hunt display in the Gallery of Birds." src="/sites/default/files/imce/rom2012_12783_3.jpg" style="width: 650px; height: 366px;" /></p>
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Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:31:09 +0000Douglas Thomson13058 at http://www.rom.on.cahttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/13058#commentsLive @ the ROM - Ancient Greece & Rome Weekend!http://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/9499
<div class="field field-name-field-thumbnail field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/blog_post/thumbnail/7_grwknd_2013.jpg?itok=x1GOZmS6" width="645" height="500" alt="Ancient Romans come to the ROM for Family Weekend, June 15-16th" title="Ancient Romans come to the ROM for Greece &amp; Rome Family Weekend, June 15-16th. &lt;i&gt;photos by K.Sunahara&lt;/i&gt;" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Inside and outside the ROM on June 15th and 16th Ancient Greece and Rome Family Weekend is in full swing. Our galleries are full of experts - some in period clothing! &nbsp;</p>
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Wear some replica armour and find out what it was like to be a Roman soldier</li>
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<p><img alt="Roman army re-enactors case a stir on Bloor Street" src="/sites/default/files/imce/8_grwknd_2013.jpg" style="width: 645px; height: 435px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;" /></p>
<p style=""><strong>Roman army re-enactors cause quite a stir on Bloor Street</strong></p>
<p style=""><strong><img alt="Is that sword really sharp? The answer: Yes!" src="/sites/default/files/imce/1_grwknd_2013.jpg" style="width: 645px; height: 420px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;" /></strong></p>
<p style=""><strong>ROM Visitor:<em> Is that sword really sharp?</em>&nbsp; The ROM&#39;s Robert Mason:<em> &nbsp;Yes, it is!</em></strong></p>
<p style=""><strong><img alt="the ROM's Kate Cooper talking Greek pottery techniques in the galleries" src="/sites/default/files/imce/3_grwknd_2013.jpg" style="width: 645px; height: 460px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;" /></strong></p>
<p style=""><strong>The ROM&#39;s Kate Cooper explaining how Greek pottery was made - Come and meet her in the 3rd floor galleries</strong></p>
<p style=""><strong><img alt="The ROM's Laura Lipcsei talking about the conservation of Greek &amp; Roman artifacts" src="/sites/default/files/imce/2_grwknd_2013.jpg" style="width: 645px; height: 460px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;" /></strong></p>
<p style=""><strong>The ROM&#39;s Laura Lipcsei talking about the conservation of Greek &amp; Roman artifacts</strong></p>
<p style=""><img alt="The average Roman soldier carried quite a load just in armour alone!" src="/sites/default/files/imce/6_grwknd_2013.jpg" style="width: 645px; height: 600px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;" /></p>
<p style=""><strong>The average Roman soldier carried quite a load just in armour alone!</strong></p>
<p style=""><strong><img alt="The ROMan army get put throught their paces in a military drill" src="/sites/default/files/imce/4_grwknd_2013.jpg" style="width: 645px; height: 460px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;" /></strong></p>
<p style=""><strong>Fresh ROMan army recruits get put throught their paces in a military drill</strong></p>
<p style=""><strong><a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/en/node/9470">Ancient Greece &amp; Rome Family Weekend, last day June 16th... come join in the fun!</a></strong></p>
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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:12:48 +0000Kay Sunahara9499 at http://www.rom.on.cahttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/9499#commentsExplorers' Club kids get a sneak peak at the newest Animal Explorerhttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/9188
<div class="field field-name-field-thumbnail field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/blog_post/thumbnail/dsc05182.jpg?itok=8sVkc3jF" width="654" height="367" alt="A Komodo Dragon Toy on a staircase railing at the ROM" title="Vara hanging around at the Totem Pole stairs" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em>Submitted by Courtney Murfin, Interpretive Planner and Explorers&#39; Club Co-chair</em></p>
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This past Saturday, ROM members went <em>wild </em>at the <a href="https://www.rom.on.ca/en/join-us/membership/members/just-kids">Explorers&#39; Club&#39;s</a> spring event. A day of crafts, live creatures, cool ROM specimens and special programming brought Explorers closer to nature and introduced them to some new ROM programs. As a special treat, Explorers were the first to take Vara the Komodo Dragon on a scavenger hunt around the Museum! Kids had a great time introducing the newest member of the ROM&#39;s <a href="http://visit https://www.rom.on.ca/en/activities-programs/events-calendar/animal-explorers-1">Animal Explorers</a> program to his Museum neighbours. One little girl even brought Vara into the Earth Rangers show (she really didn&#39;t want him to miss it!).<br />
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Even though some parents were less excited than their kids to meet the live skink, cockroaches, and stick bugs at the event, they were all thrilled to explore the Museum with Vara. A special prize waited for them when they completed the hunt, as well as a bonus stamp in their passport (Explorers&#39; Club members get to collect stamps to earn some really cool prizes!).</p>
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<img alt="A real Komodo Dragon Skeleton on display in the Schad Gallery" src="/sites/default/files/imce/dsc04661_0_0.jpg" style="width: 530px; height: 297px;" title="One of the stops on the new Animal Explorer Scavenger Hunt is at a REAL Komodo Dragon" /></p>
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Members always have a fun at the Explorers Club events, with experiences like special shows in the ROM&#39;s inflatable StarLab, getting to meet ROM curators, and learning how to do some amazing folding with the Origami Society. This latest event was made even more special by having Vara there. Visitors can take this cuddly Komodo Dragon on their own scavenger hunt starting Sunday May 19th.<br />
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Wed, 08 May 2013 21:07:19 +0000Nicole Richards9188 at http://www.rom.on.cahttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/9188#commentsNational Archaeology Day at the ROM!http://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7481
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<p>Why not escape the Toronto rain this Saturday and come to the ROM to hear about hot and sunny countries?&nbsp; Saturday is&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/programs/rom_kids/weekends/index.php?cat_id=14&amp;ref=showinfo&amp;prev_ref=showlisting&amp;program_id=8130&amp;keyword=&amp;audience_ids%5B0%5D=all&amp;start_date=all&amp;end_date=2029-08-29" target="_blank">National Archaeology Day</a> at the ROM, and we&rsquo;ve been hard at work sorting out lots of events, talks and activities (for kids AND grown ups).&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t have any good behind-the-scenes photos because no one has stood still for long enough!&nbsp; Things have been hectic with deciding on activities, inviting speakers, co-ordinating volunteers, ordering equipment, creating fact sheets and advertising the event.&nbsp; Massive thanks to lots of ROM staff, professors and students from the U of T, and the Toronto branch of the AIA for their hard work so far.&nbsp; Keep it up!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.archaeological.org/NAD" target="_blank">National Archaeology Day</a> is a big deal (at least I think it is).&nbsp; It&rsquo;s an annual event that is happening across North America and beyond (more than 100 institutions are taking part), promoted by the <a href="http://www.archaeological.org/" target="_blank">Archaeological Institute of America</a>, one of the largest archaeological organisations in the world.&nbsp; What&rsquo;s so important is that it&rsquo;s trying to make sure everyone understands what archaeology is, why it matters and why it needs support &ndash; difficult when there are so many other good causes to worry about.</p>
<p>Come and meet real live archaeologists!&nbsp; In Currelly Gallery students will be talking about excavations they&rsquo;ve worked on in Turkey, Syria, Crete and Peru, and the ROM&rsquo;s very own Justin Jennings will be talking about his work in Peru in the lecture theatre.&nbsp; They don&rsquo;t all look like Indiana Jones (just warning you), but they do have some good stories &ndash; some of them even get into the news (see the Toronto Star&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1235118--toronto-student-discovers-3-000-year-old-statue-in-turkey" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.utoronto.ca/tap/media/Toronto%20Star_Aug%2011.2011.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>).&nbsp; Unlike Indiana Jones, proper archaeologists don&rsquo;t just uncover &lsquo;treasure&rsquo; to take home.&nbsp; Systematic excavation and recording is as important as even the most spectacular finds, because that&rsquo;s what really helps us understand the past.&nbsp; Kids (and kids at heart) will also be able to have a go at learning excavation and fieldwork techniques.</p>
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<img alt="Kate Kooper, archaeologist, on a dig in Perachora, Greece." class="wp-image-8424 " src="/sites/default/files/imce/Kate_cooper_greece.jpg" style="width: 266px; height: 353px;" /></p>
<p class="wp-caption-text">Me &lsquo;hard at work&rsquo; in a sunny country (archaeological site of Perachora, Greece).</p>
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<p>But archaeology is about more than just digging up dirt (and &lsquo;treasure&rsquo;) in hot countries (some of you may have seen my opinions on this in an earlier blog. It&rsquo;s also about preserving, studying and understanding the discoveries made during excavations, to help explain the past. &nbsp;So there will also be activities and talks from the people who conserve and study artefacts, and display them to everyone else.&nbsp; As well as talking to conservators, curators and academics about how objects were made and restored, you can repair your own broken pot, and make your own &lsquo;ancient objects&rsquo;, such as an Egyptian collar, and a Minoan headdress up in the Currelly Gallery.&nbsp; Two ancient world experts from out of town, Derek Counts and Carol Mattusch, will be talking about their subjects in the lecture theatre, and the series of lecture theatre talks will be kicked off by ROM curator and U of T professor Clemens Reichel talking about the up-coming Mesopotamia exhibition.&nbsp; Come along at 11.30 to hear some behind-the-scenes stories which will make you think about what went into the next exhibition you walk through!</p>
<p>And finally, because dressing up seems to be a key to the most successful ROM events, we have re-enactors, to show us how living history can help us understand the past.&nbsp; Because it&rsquo;s that year we will be&nbsp;exploring the war of 1812&nbsp;with Dr Dunnfore, a field doctor, and some <a href="http://glengarrylightinfantry.ca/" target="_blank">1812 soldiers</a>. They show that archaeology isn&rsquo;t just about very old things, but also about more recent history.</p>
<p>So come along, escape the rain and have fun while supporting a good cause &ndash; the promotion of archaeology.&nbsp; Spread the word!</p>
<p><em><strong>See you this weekend! And join us on&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/romkids" target="_blank">twitter</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://romkids.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">tumblr</a>&nbsp;for all the action!</strong></em></p>
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Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:11:13 +0000Kate Cooper7481 at http://www.rom.on.cahttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7481#commentsPhil Currie, the legend, my hero, is coming to the ROM!http://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7483
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>One of the greatest&nbsp;experiences&nbsp;of my life occurred when I was just 7 years old. My mom took me for a week-long adventure to Alberta to visit Drumheller and the Badlands.</p>
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<p><img alt="kiron, with the bandlands through to the horizon." src="/sites/default/files/imce/kiron-mukherjee.jpg" title="The Badlands and I. Notice that loose striped shirt, and Stegosaurus print shorts, examples of my hipster upbringing." /></p>
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<p>The Badlands is&nbsp;an&nbsp;incredibly&nbsp;special place &ndash; the way only a barren, rocky and sandy place could be. Not only is it one of the BEST places in the world&nbsp;(maybe the GREATEST)&nbsp;to find dinosaur fossils, it&rsquo;s also so prehistoric feeling that it actually feels like you&rsquo;ve been transported back in time. Stunning fossils and&nbsp;innumerable bits of&nbsp;petrified wood litter the landscape, sticking out of the loose soil and red rock in unbelievable abundance. I remember tripping over them and scuffing my knees as we walked through the seemingly endless&nbsp;terrain. It was wonderful.</p>
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<p><img alt="Phil currie in the filed, on a dig." src="/sites/default/files/imce/phil-currie.jpg" title="The legend, Phil Currie." /></p>
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<p>We spent a ton of time at the&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/RoyalTyrrell" target="_blank">Royal Tyrell Museum</a>, which is maybe the greatest dinosaur museum in the world. I went on digs and visited sites, and took endless walks into the Badlands. The greatest part of the trip, though, was meeting a hero of mine, Phil Currie.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.lieutenantgovernor.ab.ca/aoe/education/philip-john-currie/index.html" target="_blank">Phil Currie</a>, for the&nbsp;uninitiated, is one of the world&rsquo;s LEADING palaeontologists. He&rsquo;s worked greatly in the Drumheller region and with the Royal Tyrell Museum. Some of his greatest work has been with the&nbsp;Argentina-Canada Dinosaur Project&nbsp;and the&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.lieutenantgovernor.ab.ca/AOE_Legacy/Member/3/ShowVideo?modelId=3&amp;videoId=539" target="_blank">Canada-China</a><a href="http://www.lieutenantgovernor.ab.ca/AOE_Legacy/Member/3/ShowVideo?modelId=3&amp;videoId=539" target="_blank">&nbsp;Dinosaur Project</a>. His research has been widespread, covering multiple subjects such as theropods, the origin of birds and the movement of dinosaurs across continents.&nbsp;He even has a museum being built and named after him -&nbsp;<a href="http://www.curriemuseum.ca/about/our-story/" target="_blank">The Phillip J. Currie Museum</a>&nbsp;- opening next summer. Phil Currie is all sorts of&nbsp;incredible.</p>
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<p><img alt="Albertasaurus skull on display at the ROM." src="/sites/default/files/imce/albertasaurus.jpg" title="Albertasaurus. One of the dinosaurs Phil Currie has done wondrous research on." /></p>
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<p>I&rsquo;ve spoken at length about<a href="http://romkids.tumblr.com/post/21882317272/dinosaur-weekend-is-finally-here" target="_blank">&nbsp;my love of dinosaurs</a>, so I imagine it&rsquo;s easy to understand how jaw-dropping it was walking into one of the field stations in the Badlands where they study fossils and seeing him there. To me, meeting Phil Currie, a leading palaeontologist in the world and one of the great&nbsp;Canadian&nbsp;scientists, was the same as meeting my favourite baseball player (at that time, Roberto Alomar). I was starstruck. Dinostruck. What ever you want to call it, I was paralyzed. The living legend, indeed my hero, was RIGHT in front of me! &hellip; And I couldn&rsquo;t say a word. My mom pushed me up to the rail&nbsp;separating&nbsp;the lab from the entrance and called Phil over. She introduced me and told him how much I love dinosaurs and how we came on this trip JUST to visit the Badlands and see the fossils. I remember him coming around to meet me and, like the great guy he is, getting down on a knee to shake my hand. He even took the time to ask me some questions about my favourite dinosaurs and what I wanted to be when I grew up. I remember blurting out that I loved protoceratops and that I wanted to be a palaeontologist just like him. We talked for probably three minutes in total, but it left a lasting impression on my life.</p>
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<p>It&rsquo;s such on honour to say that we have Phil Currie coming to the ROM this Sunday for our latest&nbsp;Dino Day. I&rsquo;m really excited to give kids the same&nbsp;experience&nbsp;to meet such a legend, just like I did. We have the Phil Currie Meet and Greet from 1 to 2&nbsp;pm in the Currelly Gallery (where many of the other Dino Day family&nbsp;activities&nbsp;are), and then at 2&nbsp;pm is his lecture, Mega Claws and Teeth: The Argentina-Canada Dinosaur Project (a few tickets still left!) in the theatre.</p>
<p>Considering how well the&nbsp;<a href="http://romkids.tumblr.com/post/31921462784/a-childhood-dream-of-mine-was-to-meet-paul-sereno" target="_blank">Paul Sereno</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://romkids.tumblr.com/post/30903813499/dinosaur-days-catherine-forster-is-coming-to" target="_blank">Catherine Forster</a>&nbsp;Meet and Greets went, the kids (and the MANY adults, too) will have no problem going up to this hero to ask questions. When the event wraps, I hope to give another go at introducing myself to Phil Currie; this time, without the help of my mom!</p>
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Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:03:46 +0000Kiron Mukherjee7483 at http://www.rom.on.cahttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7483#comments#5Reasons for our Mediaeval Fair!http://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7486
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em><strong>Five reasons why our&nbsp;Mediaeval Fair&nbsp;(September 29/30) is going to be awesome!</strong></em></p>
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<p><img alt="Kiron's Mediaeval Look" src="/sites/default/files/imce/kirons-mediaeval-look.jpg" title="My Mediaeval look." /></p>
<p>The Mediaeval Fair at the ROM (running this weekend on September 29/30) has become a bit of a tradition over the years. It&rsquo;s just fun. ROM staff and Medieval reenactors get all dressed up and talk about all things Mediaeval &ndash; The way of life, swords, why knights are so cool, more about swords. Great stuff.</p>
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<p><strong>Here are FIVE reasons why I&rsquo;m so jazzed about this event.</strong></p>
<p>5. Falconry. There will actually be a falcon in the ROM and we&rsquo;ll be talking about Mediaeval hunting and their use of animals. Turns out falcons &ndash; kind of a big deal.</p>
<p>4.&nbsp;All the performances, workshops, and hands-on tables. There are so many. And if you have fun Mediaeval questions, this is the perfect time to ask them!</p>
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<p>3.&nbsp;Mediaeval dancing. Because it starts off kind of funny. And then all of sudden you&rsquo;re in it too, having a jam. And let&rsquo;s be real, the ROM staff working this have been taking their lunches off to practice since they&rsquo;re so excited. Will be QUITE the jig. And not only will they be doing performances IN the ROM, they will also be outside (weather permitting) for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.culturedays.ca/en" target="_blank">Culture Days</a>!</p>
<p>2. Trying on armour, holding swords, just being a regular ol&rsquo; knight.</p>
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<p>1. Shooting arrows&hellip; in a museum. #nuffsaid</p>
<p><em><strong>See you this weekend! And join us on&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/romkids" target="_blank">twitter</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://romkids.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">tumblr</a>&nbsp;for all the action!</strong></em></p>
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Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:03:35 +0000Kiron Mukherjee7486 at http://www.rom.on.cahttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7486#commentsPronghorns and Prickly Pears and Bison…oh my! Thoughts on Grasslands National Parkhttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7494
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em>Submitted by Alexander Muth, winner of the Find the Baby Bison Contest</em></p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Alexander loving the view from the top of 70 mile Butte</p>
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<p>We&rsquo;re back. &nbsp;We all had a great trip out west. It&rsquo;s hard to pick out highlights, as it all seems like highlights to me.</p>
<p>My brother Isaac says the scariest part was seeing the bison by the side of the road at night. &nbsp;Lenny didn&rsquo;t like the hiking, but he really enjoyed all the food and staying up late by the campfire for the singing and s&rsquo;mores and stories.&nbsp;My father especially loved seeing pronghorns and a badger.</p>
<p>I liked the black footed ferret hunt, though we didn&rsquo;t see any. I also liked all the hikes to places like the prairie dog town where we saw bison and coyotes, prickly pears and even a greater short-horned lizard (Nicole&rsquo;s favorite, and very rare!), as well as prairie dogs; &nbsp;and to 70-Mile Butte, where the view was amazing.&nbsp;What an amazing variety of wildlife and landscape there was in one short trip.</p>
<p>Later we drove to the East Block of <a href="http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/sk/grasslands/index.aspx" title="Grasslands National Park">Grasslands National Park</a>, where we saw two Triceratops radiuses. &nbsp;The smaller one was full of little holes, and it looked a bit like pumice, but with smaller, closer-together holes. &nbsp;This means that it was a younger one, growing fast, and shows that it was warm blooded, an important discovery. That was cool.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Isaac, Alexander and Lenny examine a Triceratops radius</p>
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<p>Everyone there was quite friendly and kind, and I am really grateful for the opportunity I was given to see this amazing part of our country.</p>
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Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:48:35 +0000Nicole Richards7494 at http://www.rom.on.cahttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7494#commentsGo West Young Man, and take a ROM Employee with youhttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7497
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>I&rsquo;ve just come back from <a href="http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/sk/grasslands/index.aspx">Grasslands National Park</a> with the Grand Prize Winner of the <em>Find the Baby Bison</em> contest, Alexander Muth. I&rsquo;m the lucky ROM employee chosen to accompany him and his family on the trip (actually no luck involved at all, it was an arm wrestling competition and I&rsquo;m stronger than I look).</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Members of The Bison Collaborative present the Muth Family with their ticket to Grasslands National Park</p>
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<p><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-8050 alignleft" height="61" src="http://blog.rom.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/bc_logo-e1345837679782.jpg" width="100" />So why did 4 environmental education organizations get together to bring attention to Bison and the grassland ecosystems in which they live?</p>
<p>The simple answer is that grasslands are cool &ndash; and I&rsquo;ve got the pictures to prove it!</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">While on a Black-tailed Prairie Dog town Alexander and Isaac spot a Plains Bison in the distance</p>
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<p>The more complex answer is that grassland habitats around the world are in danger of disappearing altogether, and with them we risk losing forever lots of amazing plants and animals. It&rsquo;s one of the reasons this ecosystem is highlighted in the <a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/nature">Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity</a> here at the ROM.</p>
<p>Grasslands National Park protects this important ecosystem, and contains the best example of native prairie left in Canada. As such, its home to a number of&nbsp;prairie species that are at risk of vanishing, either in Canada or completely. We were really lucky to see a number of these. On the top of my list is the Greater Short-horned Lizard. I can&rsquo;t tell you how amazing it was to see this rare critter scurrying around in the prairie sun.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Greater Short-horned Lizard, Phrynosoma hernandesi</p>
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<p>Walking in silver sagebrush, exploring a place where animals like the Pronghorn Antelope and the Black-footed Ferret still roam in Canada is a memory that is sure to stay with Alexander, his brothers, and this lucky ROM employee.</p>
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Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:47:00 +0000Nicole Richards7497 at http://www.rom.on.cahttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7497#commentsBaby bison are found, four Canadian girls win experience of a lifetimehttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7614
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img alt="Find the Baby Bison Display at the ROM" src="/sites/default/files/imce/find-the-baby-bison_0.jpg" title="Find the Baby Bison Display at the ROM" /></p>
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<p>Kids loved the mystery of the lost baby bison.</p>
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<p>They searched the 285 hectares of the Toronto Zoo. They inspected the great halls, galleries and dark corners of the Royal Ontario Museum. They probed the online world of Bison Collaborative websites. They left no stone unturned. They were dedicated, passionate about the mystery of the lost baby bison.</p>
<p>And, they succeeded. They found a baby bison. They are:</p>
<p>Amelia, age 9 from Peterborough Ontario<br />
Jayda, age 8 from Saskatoon Saskatchewan<br />
Rielle, age 4 from Courtenay British Columbia<br />
Rachel, age 11 from Toronto Ontario</p>
<p>Actually, as of December 31, 2011, a total of 1,156 kids from across Canada had found baby bison, and had entered the Find the Baby Bison contest.</p>
<p>Amelia, Jayda, Rielle and Rachel were just the four lucky kids to be randomly drawn for a prize to mark the half-way point of the contest. All entrants should be congratulated! (and all are eligible for the grand prize draw after the contest close on February 25, 2012).</p>
<p>The contest is sponsored by the Bison Collaborative, a group of like-minded organizations consisting of <a href="http://www.pc.gc.ca/">Parks Canada</a>, <a href="http://www.earthrangers.com/">Earth Rangers</a>, the <a href="http://www.torontozoo.com/">Toronto Zoo</a>and the ROM. The contest challenges children and young adults to find a hidden baby bison. The baby bison was either a life-sized cut-out hidden within the ROM or the Toronto Zoo, or was an online icon hidden on sponsor websites.</p>
<p>Prizes included ROM memberships and behind-the-scene tours, a VIP tour of the Animal Health Centre at the Zoo and an afternoon helping keepers care for the resident Wood Bison herd, and an immersive experience at the award winning Earth Rangers Centre where kids will learn how staff train animals for their Bring Back the Wild Show.</p>
<p>Indeed, our lucky winners should inspire more kids to enter: there are 3 more secondary prizes to be drawn (February 14, 2012), and a grand prize trip for a family to <a href="http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/sk/grasslands/index.aspx">Grasslands National Park</a> in Saskatchewan. The grand prize winner and their family will spend 3 days and 3 nights in the Park helping biologist in the field with a variety of research projects including monitoring the recently reintroduced, and highly endangered black-footed ferret. They may even get to help re-introduce more ferrets!</p>
<p>The Bison Collaborative will also sponsor a symposium about grassland ecosystems for scientists, policy makers, educators and the public. The Symposium Program&nbsp;is complete and includes a panel discussion of leading bison research scientists, an evening with Director Kenton Vaughn and his documentary <em>Return of the Prairie Bandit</em>, and keynote talks by the the <a href="http://www.natureconservancy.ca/">Nature Conservancy of Canada</a> on the status of Ontario&rsquo;s grassland systems, and by Dr. Gerald Oetelaar, Archaeologist from the University of Calgary on worldviews of bison management on the Northwestern Plains. The Symposium is scheduled for February 22 and 23, 2012 at the ROM. Register at any sponsor website or at the contest website.</p>
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Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:08:56 +0000Dave Ireland7614 at http://www.rom.on.cahttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7614#commentsWalking in a Winter Wonderlandhttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7626
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Here for ROM for the Holidays, it&rsquo;s the long-awaited return of the Earth Rangers Studio Winter Wonderland in Life in Crisis: the Schad Gallery of Biodiversity!</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">A beautiful sight, we&#39;re happy tonight... (It took so long to hand-paint all these trees! My wrist hurt for ages.)</p>
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<p>For the past three years, we&rsquo;ve been adding things to our Canadian Winter Wonderland, and this year it&rsquo;s better than ever. As in other years, visitors can walk through the winter wonderland to identify animal tracks, but there are a few new surprises this year for people who&rsquo;ve visited before.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Hey, weren&#39;t you lost?</p>
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<p>First off, we&rsquo;ve added an entirely new ecosystem this year.&nbsp; Welcome to the Grasslands!&nbsp; This face may look familiar, but this is isn&rsquo;t our lost baby bison; this is his twin, safe at home in his native grasslands.&nbsp; The lost baby bison cutout is still wandering somewhere in the museum. Can you <a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/bison/" target="_blank">follow the clues to find him and enter the contest</a>?</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Oh, now who&#39;s been walking through my nice clean snow? If you think you know, post an answer in the comments!</p>
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<p>There are some old familiar faces, some new things to touch, and many more little details to spot in the forest.&nbsp; Can you find the flying squirrel hidden in a tree?&nbsp; How about the hibernating frog and rattlesnake? The wolf has moved from his hiding spot to a place of honour in the boreal forest, as he tracks a meal to the beaver dam.&nbsp; Will the beaver family be safe, or will he find a way to the lodge in the middle of the pond?</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Baffled by the beaver dam</p>
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<p>This may be the last year of the Winter Wonderland at the ROM, so be sure to&nbsp; check it out during the rest of ROM for the Holidays (until January 8, 2012). &nbsp;If you&rsquo;re too far away, you can always check out more of the photos, as well as some from the 2010 Winter Wonderland&nbsp;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumgirlrom/sets/72157628673568473/with/6602047375/" target="_blank" title="Winter Wonderland">&nbsp;on my Flickr page</a>. We&rsquo;ve put a lot of work into it over the last three years, and we think the results are worth it.&nbsp; We even had one family tell us that they come back every year just for the Winter Wonderland.&nbsp; Come in and make some memories!</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;I have a feeling there&#39;s a clue around here somewhere...&quot;</p>
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Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:41:30 +0000Sarah Elliott7626 at http://www.rom.on.cahttp://www.rom.on.ca/fr/node/7626#comments